3 papers
econ.GN2025
The Interaction Between Domestic Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy in Israel
Jonathan Benchimol, Inon Gamrasni, Michael Kahn +5
The global financial crisis (GFC) triggered the use of macroprudential policies imposed on the banking sector. Using bank-level panel data for Israel for the period 2004-2019, we f…
econ.GN2025
The COVID-19 Inflation Weighting in Israel
Jonathan Benchimol, Itamar Caspi, Yuval Levin
Significant shifts in the composition of consumer spending as a result of the COVID-19 crisis can complicate the interpretation of official inflation data, which are calculated by…
econ.GN2025
Measuring Communication Quality of Interest Rate Announcements
Jonathan Benchimol, Itamar Caspi, Sophia Kazinnik
We use text-mining techniques to measure the accessibility and quality of information within the texts of interest rate announcements published by the Bank of Israel over the past…